Leftie Bloggers Sue Huffington Post

Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 12:11 PM

A group of organized leftie bloggers sued Huffington Post today. They want to get paid for their contributions to the far left website.
Author and freelance journalist Jonathan Tasini is leading the effort against HuffPo after writing 216 posts without pay.

Today, a group of bloggers led by union organizer and journalist Jonathan Tasini filed a class-action suit against the Huffington Post, founder Arianna Huffington, and AOL, which acquired the news-and-blogs site in February. (Update: On a call this morning, Tasini vowed to make Huffington “a pariah in the progressive community” and said his goal is to set a precedent that writers must share in the value they create.)

Tasini, the lead plaintiff, has been a blogger for Huffpo since December 2005, when the site was just seven months old. According to his blogger page, however, he stopped posting on February 10, three days after the purchase of the site by AOL was announced. I emailed him for more information about the suit; he responded by inviting me to participate in a telephone press conference.

Kevin commented:

Granny commented:

You can’t blame them. What made the HuffPo were the various blogs written by contributors who did not receive a penny for their efforts. Had those blogs not existed, HuffPo would never in a million years attained the traffic that it did. If Arianna Huffington is going to have a big payday, then those who earned it for her deserve a fair share of the proceeds.

Why? The right of contract, freedom of assembly, and private property rights. All core conservative beliefs that Arianna/AOL now hypocritically seek refuge behind in this manufactured ‘labor dispute’ from these neo-bolsheviks she allowed under her skirt.

These neo-bolshevik twits who slaved for years, voluntarily and gratis, are now simply utilizing the malignant knee-jerk entitlement attitude Arianna made a fortune cultivating: that of these neo-bolshevik thieves to force their way into other people’s wallets, then rape the victim three ways from Sunday, all with a liberal Judge’s court order to facilitate the brutality, of course.

Neo-bolshevik thuggery aimed at one of their own media darlings.

I love it when they attempt to eat their own.

Say. I wonder how long your huney bunny benefactor, uncle Geo. Soros will leave you twisting in the wind on this one, Arianna?

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RedBeard commented:

Quite a career this Tasini guy has had, According to Wikipedia, he is a “strategist, organizer, activist, commentator and writer…” And also, according to his history, he’s a consultant (whatever that means), a class action lawsuit aficionado and a repeated failure as a political candidate. The only thing missing from that resume is a productive job.